They get Sam back from the Cage after 11.09, and he is *cold*.

"He looks at her then, really looks at her, and she knows he is seeing all the cracks in her, all the places she is broken and doesn't quite fit together anymore, all the things she tries to hide . . . Funny how, now that she starts to see them, the cracks in him look a lot like the cracks in her." They've both been through so much. Will it bring them together or push them apart?

Daniel Jackson plays the piano. Except when he doesn't.

Once they take the time to really get to know each other, Daniel and Vala realize there might be a lot more to what they feel than just "friends and co-workers." Not that things are ever that simple. D/V

Despite Don's reappearance, Sam and Amelia choose to stay together. Dean's return from Purgatory complicates things, but Sam is determined to keep the normal life he's finally built for himself in Kermit. Season 8 AU.

That fateful night when Sam is six months old, Mary's long-buried hunting instincts kick in just in time and she doesn't rush into his room while the demon is there. Knowing the demon did something to Sam and determined to find out what, Mary is equally resolved to keep her family safe and give her sons the normal childhood she never had.

Charlie braids Sam's hair.

While Charlie recovers from her ordeal in the bunker, Sam takes care of her and tells her about his experience with soullessness. Episode tag for s10e11, "There's No Place Like Home."

Sam adopts a dog since, as Jody keeps telling him, he's allowed to have nice things. Somehow, thanks in part to the large dog impressing on Dean the need for an attitude adjustment, this leads to a bunker occupied by two humans, four dogs, an ex-angel, and an ex-demon. And when Charlie, Dorothy, and a surprise guest return from Oz just in time for Christmas, the fun really begins.

Sam embraces his powers, but the way he uses them isn't exactly what the demons had in mind. AU for All Hell Breaks Loose Parts 1 and 2.

"Chicken or Beef?" AU where Luke tells Lorelai about what Dean said when he was drunk, and Lorelai goes to talk to Dean about it, forcing him to reconsider whether he's really ready to get married.

After the funeral, Sam goes to the park where they met to mourn Jess.

Sam kills the demon and saves his friend, because demons don't always lie.

Sam runs into Jody and Alex on his junk food run for Dean at the end of "Soul Survivor," and they give him some much needed TLC.

Dawn saves Jessica from Brady. After all the awkward explanations, it's clear that, whatever it is the Winchesters are dealing with, it's Slayer business.

Sam and Jess meet in a park when they're kids. Years later, friends at Stanford, they figure it out.

Sam goes with Jess to her family reunion, and receives help coping from an unlikely, adorable source.